Although Officer Luann Corbin, played by actress Crystal Fox, is introduced at the end of this episode as having just been brought that day from Jackson, Mississippi, to become the newest member of the Sparta Police Department, Fox is listed in the closing credits of the previous episode, "Murder Most Ancient", and was shown sitting in character at her desk in the office of the Sparta PD.
Though this is Thom Gossum, Jr's series debut as the character Councilman "Melvin Lemmon" (as Thom Gossum); at the end of the episode before the introduction of "Officer Luann Corbin", both Councilwoman Harriet DeLong, and Chief Bill Gillespie refer to him as "Ted" (as in "Ted Marcus)